KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Matthew 27:65–66
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Matthew 27:65
65Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.
65Pilate said vnto them, Yee haue a watch, goe your way, make it as sure as you can.
Matthew 27:66
66So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
66So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
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DEFINED WORDS
Matthew 27:65
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To stay awake, observe, guard, or keep vigil; also a guard duty or division of the night.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Certain, firm, secure, dependable, or firmly established.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Matthew 27:66
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Certain, firm, secure, dependable, or firmly established.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Affixing or closing with a seal so as to secure or make sure.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A piece or mass of rock; also to strike or kill with stones, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Placing, fixing, appointing, establishing, arranging, or causing to sit or sink.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To stay awake, observe, guard, or keep vigil; also a guard duty or division of the night.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 65
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Open the full verse study66So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
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Open the full verse study11¶ Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.
12And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,
13Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
14And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.
15So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
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Open the full verse study30There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord.
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Open the full verse study10Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
From verse 66
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Open the full verse study17And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.
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Open the full verse study19Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
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Open the full verse study60And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
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Open the full verse study2And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
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Open the full verse study11¶ Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.
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